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Indigenous peoples and the morality of the Human Genome Diversity Project.
Journal of medical ethics - 1 Apr 1999
Dodson M, Williamson R
Abstract excerpt
In addition to the aim of mapping and sequencing one human's genome, the Human Genome Project also intends to characterise the genetic diversity of the world's peoples. The Human Genome Diversity Project raises political, economic and ethical issues. These intersect clearly when the genomes under study are those of indigenous peoples who are already subject to serious economic, legal and/or social disadvantage...
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